My colleague Dan Walker has remarked about the passing of two giants from the film and entertainment business, and now I feel I must do the same. Sunday Sir Colin Davis passed away at 85 in London....

On the day everyone in America is fretting about their income taxes, someone decided to make a statement by planting several bombs at the end of the Boston marathon. This is America’s oldest marathon, and maybe the...

  Dan Walker on Film     April 12, 2013 I was saddened by the passing yesterday of Jonathan Winters.  There may have been someone else out there like him, but he’s the first him I know of (maybe...

Years ago musical critics referred to the Big Five orchestras in the US.  They were the Boston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Those days are long gone....

Dan Walker on Film         Remembering Roger Ebert: a Q & A Penn Square Post:  Dan, Roger Ebert died this week. A lot  is being made of his passing. Are you surprised? I’m saddened...